Michael Foster

Lectures on the History of Physiology

During the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ten lectures examining the history of physiology from about the sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781107683495
• ISBN-10: 1107683491
• Artikelnr.: 34450573

Inhaltsangabe

1. Vesalius: his forerunners and followers
2. Harvey and the circulation of the blood. The lacteals and lymphatics
3. Borelli and the influence of the new physics
4. Malpighi and the physiology of glands and tissues
5. Van Helmont and the rise of chemical physiology
6. Sylvius and his pupils. The physiology of digestion in the seventeenth century
7. The English school of the seventeenth century. The physiology of respiration
8. The physiology of digestion in the eighteenth century
9. The rise of the modern doctrines of respiration. Black, Priestley, Lavoisier
10. The older doctrines of the nervous system
Chronological table
Index.